A website for your West Dummerston business
For businesses on Route 30 by the covered bridge: six pages written for you, your own domain, and your hours and phone number one tap away on a phone. $499 a year, everything included.
$499 a year, everything included
The village at the longest covered bridge wholly in Vermont
West Dummerston has one of the best-known landmarks in Windham County. The West Dummerston Covered Bridge, built in 1872 by Caleb Lamson, spans 280 feet over the West River, the longest covered bridge that lies entirely within Vermont, and unlike most of its peers it still carries daily traffic between Route 30 and Camp Arden Road. It has been on the National Register since 1973, and on summer afternoons the river beneath it is one of the valley's favorite swimming spots. The village around it, with its post office (05357) on Lyons Street, is the Route 30 face of Dummerston.
Route 30 is the point. Everything moving between Brattleboro and the West River valley, Newfane, Townshend, Jamaica and on toward Stratton, drives through West Dummerston every day: commuters, second-home owners, leaf-peepers idling for a bridge photo, skiers in December. Summer is swimmers, fall is foliage, winter is ski traffic.
West Dummerston is one of three distinct parts of Dummerston, alongside the hilltop center and the Route 5 orchard side.
West Dummerston at a glance
Quick facts
- Part of
- Dummerston, VT (the Route 30 village)
- Landmark
- the 1872 West Dummerston Covered Bridge, 280 feet, longest wholly within Vermont and still open to traffic
- Setting
- the West River valley, ten minutes northwest of Brattleboro
- Village fixtures
- its own post office (05357) and beloved river swimming holes
- On the map
- the bridge has been on the National Register since 1973
What a West Dummerston business needs from a website
Much of West Dummerston's business passes by on Route 30. People who stop for the bridge look up coffee, food, a swimming spot or firewood on their phones, and trades here often work the whole West River valley. Your site gives West Dummerston customers six clear pages written for you, fast on a phone with your number one tap away. An areas page lists the towns you cover, from Newfane to Brattleboro. When the season turns from swimmers to foliage to ski traffic, you change your hours and prices yourself from a login. Your West Dummerston site runs on your own domain, with hello@ your domain forwarded to your current email.
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Running a business in West Dummerston
Route 30 is a two-lane road with the West River beside it for most of the way out of Brattleboro. West Dummerston is one of the first villages it passes through, which puts businesses here in an unusual spot: close enough to town that Brattleboro customers think of you as local, yet on the road that a great many visitors use to reach the upper valley.
Traffic on that road has a clear yearly shape. Weekdays carry commuters heading into Brattleboro for work. Summer weekends bring families with towels and inner tubes looking for the river. In late September and October the cars slow to a crawl near the bridge while passengers take photos. Then ski season turns Friday evenings into a steady northbound stream and Sunday afternoons into a southbound one.
Each of those groups wants something different from a search. A commuter wants to know if you open early enough to stop on the way in. A visitor parked by the bridge wants food, a restroom or a place to buy firewood within a few minutes. A skier wants to know if you will still be open on the drive home Sunday. One page listing hours by season answers all three without anyone having to call first.
Plenty of businesses here do not depend on passing cars at all. Builders, electricians and caretakers based in West Dummerston often work up and down the valley, in Newfane, Townshend and the second-home roads beyond. For them the useful part of a website is the areas page, which tells a homeowner thirty miles away that you do in fact come out to their road. Our post on how serving two towns changes a website explains why one clear list beats a separate page for every village.
The village name itself can trip people up. Map apps and mail sometimes say West Dummerston and sometimes just Dummerston. Visitors may not realize the covered bridge and the town are the same place. Mentioning both on your site, along with the fact that you are part of Dummerston, helps a search connect the two.
Phones get used in odd places along this road. Signal can fade in the river valley, so a site that loads in a few seconds with the number right at the top is worth more than a long gallery.
Six pages written for a West Dummerston business cost $499 a year; you can start your West Dummerston website by answering a short set of questions.
What you get for $499 a year
Tell us about your business and we write, build and host a complete website for it. You will never have to choose a template or install an update.
Six pages, written for you
A home page, an about page, your services, the areas you cover, answers to the questions customers ask, and a contact page. Written from what you tell us about your business, not filled with placeholder text.
A logo and images
Use your own logo and photos, or we make a clean logo and an image for every page. Either way the site looks finished the day it goes live.
Your own web address
The site runs on your own domain, with an email address to match: hello@ your domain, forwarded to the email you already use. If you need a domain, we can buy it for you: its price is shown on the order form and added to the yearly bill.
Hosting, security and backups
Fast hosting, a security certificate so browsers show the padlock, and backups, kept current all year without you having to think about it.
A login to change anything
Change a price, a phone number, a sentence or a photo yourself, whenever you like, from a simple login.
The legal pages
Terms, a privacy policy and an accessibility statement, so the site covers the basics a business website is expected to have.
Need more than six pages?
If your business needs more than our six-page website, we can quote custom work. We build custom websites from $2,500 to $100,000, depending on what the site has to do. Anything is possible. For a quote, call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@brattleborolocal.com.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
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Tell us about your business
One form: what you do, where, what makes you different, your services and prices if you want them shown, and any photos or logo you have. Anything you leave out, we simply do not claim.
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We build it
We write every page, design it, and set it up on your web address, 24 to 48 hours from payment.
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It goes live, and we look after it
There is nothing for you to approve. Your site goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link. If you see anything you want changed, tell us and we change it. Then it runs all year and renews on its own, with reminders before every renewal.
More about Dummerston
See the Dummerston page, or browse every Windham County town and village.
Questions from West Dummerston business owners
Yes. One of your six pages lists the areas you cover, so you can name West Dummerston, Dummerston, Newfane, Townshend, Putney, Brattleboro or wherever you actually work. It is one areas page rather than a separate page for each town, and you can change the list yourself from your login if your service area grows.
Yes. Your site comes with a login where you can change any text, price, photo or phone number yourself. When you switch from summer hours to foliage hours, or change what you are selling, you update the site the same day. Nobody has to make the change for you.
Built for phones first, the site reads well and loads quickly. Your phone number is one tap away. Your hours, location and what you offer sit on clear, simple pages, so someone who just pulled over by the bridge can check if you are open and call you without digging.
One flat price: $499 a year, with the writing, design, hosting, security certificate, backups and your login all included. There is no setup fee and no monthly bill. It renews automatically each year, and you can turn automatic renewal off at any time.
24 to 48 hours from payment. It goes live as soon as it is built, and we email you the link.
We do, from what you tell us on the order form. If you see anything you want changed once your site is live, tell us and we change it.
Yes. Tell us which domain on the form. We send you two settings to change, and your site goes live once they are changed. We also check that any email you already have on that domain keeps working.
Brattleboro Local is a division of Postcard Advantage LLC. Your order, billing, website and support are all handled by Postcard Advantage, and you can reach us at (888) 348-1992.
Ask us for a quote. Beyond the six-page website, we take on custom builds priced from $2,500 up to $100,000, set by the size of the job. Anything is possible. Call (888) 348-1992 or email hello@brattleborolocal.com and tell us what you have in mind.
Yes, as optional extras paid separately from the website. Call tracking is $49 a year and puts a local tracking number on your site that rings straight through to you. The AI receptionist is $99 a year on top of call tracking and takes a message when you cannot answer. Add either on the order form or later from your account.
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